*Official* Second Test at Lords

[four_or_six]

Love Swann in the team, he has great composure for big moments I reckon.

Absolutely fantastic innings from Clarke. Seriously good player.

 

[JBH001]

Swann to come on from Broad's end if Broad cant get his pace up to 90 mph.

A good thing he didnt then.

 

[LongHopCassidy]

Susan Boyle quietly crooning to herself in the shower, I hear.

 

[simmy]

**** off Hussain. How do you captain your country when your analysis of that dismissal is it's "a good piece of bowling"? Bloke played over a full bunger ffs.

Top of off stump? Beat him in the flight?

 

[Jakester1288]

Please, we need something. Rain. Non stop streakers. Someone running at the pitch with a shovel and dig the whole thing up. Rain. People with jackhammers working on the pitch. Anything that gets us a long, long, long delay or match called off.

 

[vic_orthdox]

Super knock. Funnily enough, Swann finally gets the ball above the eyeline. Lured him into error.

 

[Uppercut]

Very poor from Clarke. Using his feet first and second ball. It's a bit harsh to criticise someone after such a good innings, but I feel sorry for Johnson having fought desperately to keep out Freddie then at the other end Clarke goes and does that.

 

[simmy]

Susan Boyle quietly crooning to herself in the shower, I hear.

What a thought...

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Fantastic innings but that was a tremendously bad choice of shot.

 

[Ausage]

Well done pup. Poor shot in the end but it happens.

 

[JBH001]

Bloke played over a full bunger ffs.

Yeah, looked like he missed a pretty straightforward off-break.

 

[simmy]

Very poor from Clarke. Using his feet first and second ball. It's a bit harsh to criticise someone after such a good innings, but I feel sorry for Johnson having fought desperately to keep out Freddie then at the other end Clarke goes and does that.

In true English style.... "that is the way he plays..."

 

[pup11]

Time for Horrie and Mitch to become heros..

 

[pasag]

Better it happened now, as opposed to half the continent suffering a cardiac arrest in a couple of hours. Looks like the hugeness of the occassion really got to these guys.

 

[NUFAN]

Hauritz has a first class 91, can it do it again??

 

[vic_orthdox]

Very poor from Clarke. Using his feet first and second ball. It's a bit harsh to criticise someone after such a good innings, but I feel sorry for Johnson having fought desperately to keep out Freddie then at the other end Clarke goes and does that.

Haha, and this from the guy who continually talks about the fallacy of it being worse to get out playing a defensive shot rather than an attacking one.

 

[GIMH]

Good job Swann's been exposed as crap by Australia, else he'd have 10fer by now

 

[Athlai]

Kill the ball Johnson.

 

[wfdu_ben91]

That's a fine effort from the professional fieldsmen, Stuart Broad.

 

[grecian]

Well done Clarke, great innings.

I ain't celebrating until the last wicket goes though. Johnson may well counter-attack now should be thrilling stuff.